gwhois fails on .de domains

[Torsten Jerzembeck]

This bug report concerns the gwhois shipped with Feisty (which is outdated according to the upstream maintainer):
toje@raven:~/Desktop$ gwhois -v
gwhois - generic whois

program version: 20070217
pattern tables: 20070222 (/etc/gwhois/pattern)

This gwhois fails to resolve any .de domain. The output is as follows:

toje@raven:~/Desktop$ gwhois datentrampelpfad.de
Process query: 'datentrampelpfad.de'
Querying whois.denic.de:43 with whois.

% 55000000007 Request not clearly specified

--
  To resolve one of the above handles: whois -h whois.denic.de HANDLE
  OTOH offical handles should be recognised directly.
  Please report errors or misfits via the debian bug tracking system.

Perhaps there are some additional parameters required by the .de whois servers. I think that upstream has a working version.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

This is already fixed in gutsy.